A reading and discussion of poems that explore how aging is experienced in later life at mental, emotional, physical, interpersonal, and spiritual levels.

The discussion will be based on the work of a variety of poets.

Optional: if you’d like, bring 12 copies of a poem (yours, or one published by someone else) on this theme and we’ll discuss it along with the group of sample poems provided.

We’ll talk about the poems in terms of content, art, and craft— and there’ll be the option of writing a first draft of a poem about aging and presenting it for discussion and feedback.

http://www.wellfleetlibrary.org/index.php/general-event-list/event/2580-poetry

This workshop is free, and open to poets and non-poets alike. Meets in the Wellfleet Library Conference Room.

Barry Hellman is a clinical psychologist who founded, curates, and hosts The Cape Cod Poetry Group Poetry & Music Series, publishes the Cape Cod Poetry Group page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/263857693775152/ , and leads workshops in the art, craft, and performance of poetry.

Previously he co-curated and hosted The Poets Corner Poetry & Music Open Mic at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in S. Yarmouth, and The Poetry, Music, & Workshop Series at the Chapel In The Pines in Eastham. His poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, broadsides, playbills, and in a chapbook, The King Of Newark, published by Finishing Line Press.

His poems often explore internal landscapes and interpersonal relationships and many are about aging, most recently three in You Must Remember This: An Anthology of Poems on Aging and Memory to be published by the New Hampshire Poetry Society in November, 2015.